Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Mona Simpson

Born: June 14, 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Mona Elizabeth Simpson is an American novelist. She has written six novels and is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Known for:
- Anywhere but Here (1986)
- A regular guy (1996)
- My Hollywood (2010)
- The Lost Father (1993)
- Off Keck Road (2000)